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Plot Summary:
Isa Reyes thinks she's a normal American teenager until her darkest dreams become reality. When she accidentally unlocks the supernatural power, she's kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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The Speed of Thought (2011)
Plot Summary:
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Taryn Manning) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, thought provoking, cerebral
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Area Q. (2011)
Plot Summary:
A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. However, the obsession has him losing his house and job so his boss sends him on special assignment in Brazil. In Brazil, Mathews investigates close encounter sightings that have taken place in the small cities of Quixada and Quixeramobim-also known as Area Q. While there, he realizes he will face the biggest discovery of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough
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The Throwaways (2015)
Plot Summary:
Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Borderline Murder (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young law student, Abby Porter, suspects that her sister, a stripper, may have been murdered. She discovers an illegal network of cross border plastic surgery centers providing crude, but inexpensive cosmetic surgery to young women in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, humorous, realistic
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Train Master (2008)
Plot Summary:
62 year old Jeremiah Wilson is truly the Train Master of Willamette Western Railroad. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad. When Brett Banner, 32 year old heir to New York Eastern talks his dad into purchasing Willamette Western, there is immediately a clash between himself and Jeremiah. Jeremiah is fired by Brett two years from retirement and turns into a angry, depressed grandfather. When Brett's nine year old son Justin realizes Jeremiah's grandson Thomas can drive a locomotive, he kidnaps and holds Thomas' favorite dinosaur ransom. Justin, Thomas and 3 other children board an old engine in for repairs and accidentally turns it into runaway engine causing a chain reaction of events.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Nexus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. The police are called and the following day, Holly is accused of the murder of her husband. Holly unwittingly finds herself at the center of a small town conspiracy and must harness all her inner strength to save her daughter and clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Universal Squadrons (2011)
Plot Summary:
Captain Lance Deakin has returned home after serving his country in Iraq. In his civilian life, he is a Texan ranch handler who lives with his partner, Becca. Deakin tries to get back into his simple way of life but strange images, memories and flashbacks of the war keep coming back to him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Plot Summary:
One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon double-crossed and becomes caught up in a contraband forcing him to overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, crime drama, realistic
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April Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Hidden Camera (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is killed in a mass murder in a Barcelona hotel room, maverick reporter Dan Kovaks, the dead journalist's brother, launches an investigation all his own. But now he and his hard-driving producer, Alejandra Velor, are being hunted by the killers and a vast network of government agents on both sides of a military conflict brewing in North Korea. But who's working for whom and who can be trusted? Those are the questions troubling Dan and Alejandra as they fight to stay alive and unravel the mystery of a super-secret item dubbed the "Mega-Bill.".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Dragon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A catastrophic volcanic eruption releases ancient dragon-like creatures on the surrounding areas. Scientists believe this could start a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions giving way to a global Dragon Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Street Racer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Wayne (Clint Browning) is an ex-racer who is serving time in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race. Wayne, having been traumatized by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. Later, he finds himself working at a scrap yard with his childhood friend Travis (Jack Goldenberg), but his probation officer is trying to blackmail him into illegal street racing. Even though Wayne attempts to restore his life and become an honest, hardworking member of society, he slowly finds himself being lured back into that world.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, mockbuster, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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200 M.P.H. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel. But to win, he’ll need to modify his trusty 1978 Datsun 280Z — with help from a pretty mechanic (Hennely Jimenez) — to get the maximum speed out of its machinery.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster, fast
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) and cutthroat gangsters with a penchant for murder Hawkins must risk everything in the most deadly race of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, action packed, fast
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Path of Destruction (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed to expose the truth. All the while, the dangerous nanoparticles - having escaped from the explosion into the stratosphere - threaten to destroy nearby cities with wildly destructive weather patterns. Among the chaos of the storms, and on the run from the authorities, Katherine must - with the help of a young scientist - get the evidence to the government to enlist their help before it's too late...and the deadly disaster turns worldwide.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Beta Test (2016)
Plot Summary:
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within the game are being reflected in the real world. He soon determines that the game's protagonist is real-life Orson Creed, an ex-Sentinel employee who is being remotely controlled by the corporation for reasons unknown. As virtual and real worlds collide, Max and Creed must join forces to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister events escalate and overwhelm the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, cyber, mockbuster, comic
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001)
Plot Summary:
Through a series of bizarre circumstances, Jarod and Miss Parker find themselves trapped together on a strange island in a life and death situation, out of which come some of the most important revelations about their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic
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Conspiracy 365 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Conspiracy 365 is a 12-part Australian television miniseries based on the novels written by Gabrielle Lord. It follows the adventures of Callum Ormond, a 15 year old who is forced to become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind the death of a family member.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Action, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Android Cop (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2045, a Los Angeles Police Department detective and his new android partner enter the Zone, a forbidden section of the city plagued with an unknown disease. There, they discover the source of the illness and attempt to stop it using the android's advanced technology and weaponry.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, fast, mockbuster, parody
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Urgency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in the next half hour. Doomed to hear Tony goes in search of money, but soon realizes that the kidnapping was not connected with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Road to Juarez (2013)
Plot Summary:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film
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Power Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a series of killer earthquakes. The corporation will stop at nothing to keep this secret from becoming public.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, fast
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Boy 7 (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic, serious, exciting
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Superfire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
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Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Maximum Velocity (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, rough, independent film, disaster movie
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The Darkest Minds (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, suspense, semi serious, saga, apocalyptic, mystic, smart